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MANUEL N. DE VEARA, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLIITOIS.

IMPROVEMENT I'N SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,845, dated June 12,1877 application filed April 19, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MANUEL N. DE VEABA, ofSpringfield, in the county of Sangamon and. State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-Plan ters; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a seed-planter, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 a sideelevation, of my seedplanter. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the samethrough the line m m, Fig. 1. Fig. A is a rear view of the frontcarriage. Figs. 5 and 6 are detailed views of the seed-box, showing theseed-dropping mechanism.

A represents the rear frame of the machine, supported upon the axle B,having a wheel, O, on each end. D is the front frame, carrying theseed-boxes E E, and having the usual furrow-openers and conductorsattached to it. D D are the hounds of the front frame, on the rear endsof which are fastened stirrups or foot-rests a a, for the feet of thedriver to rest on. The two frames A and D are connected by hooks b b, orother equivalent means.

G is the drivers seat, supported at the rear by two flexible or yieldingbraces, H H, fastened to the rear portion of the frame A; and the frontof the seat is supported by two arms, I I, attached to a rod, J, whichhas its ends bent forward and pivoted to the side beams of the frame A.The extreme forward ends of the made in segmental form, and pivoted onein the front and the other in the rear of the box. The inner curvededges of these segmental slides are cogged and geared together by meansof a centrally-pivoted pinion, It. Over this gearing is another bottom,provided with dropping-holes corresponding with the holes a. In eachslide L is a dropping-hole, t, as shown. By the action of this doublegearing an oscillating motion is obtained, so that when one side isfilling the opposite one is dropping.

The front slide L in each seed-box is provided with aforwardly-projecting arm, f, and these two arms are connected by a bar,0, having the arms pivoted to its ends.

On the front carriage D is a suitable frame, K, from which projects ahorizontal arm, M, and on the forward end of this arm are mounted twowhee1s,P and It, one within the other. The inner or smaller wheel P isformed with suitable cams e, and has a scale, m, on its periphery. Theouter or larger wheel R has a circumferential groove in which the lineor rope it runs, said line passing around pulleys T T at the sides ofthe front carriage D, and its ends staked at the ends of the field. Thetwo wheels P and R are connected by means of boltsp, passing throughslots 1 in the wheel P, as shown, allowing the two wheels to be setaccording to a scale, m, on the side of the planter, by which means theplanter may be set so as to drop in accordance with the hills in thepreceding rows.

On the arm M is pivoted an L-shapedlever, N, one arm of which has afriction-roller, s, that bears against the cams e on the wheel P, andthe other arm is,by a straight pivoted lever, S,'connected with one armof another pivoted elbow-lever, V. The other arm of this latterelbow-lever enters a staple, y, on the connecting-bar 0, so that by thecontinuous rotary motion of the wheels R P a reciprocating motion isimparted to the bar 0, thereby oscillating the dropping-slides L L.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a two-frame seed-planter, the combination of the lever-rodJ withthe pivoted or flexibly-supported seat, G, having its front support onthe lever-rod for raising or lowerin g the front frame, substantially asherein set forth.

2. In a seed-planter, the combination of the rear frame A, the frontcarriage D, flexibly connected thereto, and having hounds D, withfoot-rests a, the seat G, with flexible supports H and rigid supports I,and the bent pivoted cross-bars J, having its ends forming the arms d d,substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

3. The oscillating cogged segmental dropping-slides L L, connected orgeared together by the centrally-pivoted pinion h, as and for thepurposes set forth.

tially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

MANUEL N. DE VEARA.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH DE VEARA, DOWN JOHNSTON.

